Yes.

And you can entirely avoid compilation if you install from binary packages such as those available for Debian, Ubuntu, Conda, and Homebrew, or if you use a Docker container. From what I can tell of your current level of understanding, I strongly advise you to do that. Please see <https://git.skewed.de/count0/graph-tool/-/wikis/installation-instructions>.

Let me just advance that questions about how to operate your operating system's package manager, or docker, or compilers, are off-topic for this list. You can try stackoverflow if you need to learn those kinds of things. You may post here about installation issues if you have precisely followed the installation instructions and something doesn't work that you believe is related to graph-tool.

Best,